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TIL Winston Churchill was prescribed alcohol to get around American Prohibition

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b6oE7 TIL that due to Iceland's location on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between the North American and Eurasian Tectonic plates, the country it is technically part of both North America and Europe, and is the only place where you can walk between them.
Z8XWQ TIL most maps you see of Louisiana are inaccurate as the state is sinking into the ocean so fast that it's hard for cartographers to keep up
9AlQ TIL that in Australia, there is an orchid which grows entirely underground. It was discovered in 1928 by a farmer after he noticed a sweet smell coming from the ground. The discovery generated such excitement that a wax model was toured around the British Isles.
pAQN TIL Speedo was the only sponsor to retain Greg Louganis after his announcement of being gay and HIV positive.
oBbvK TIL German author Hermann Hesse's mother was born in India. His grandfather compiled the Malayalam language, wrote the English-Malayalam dictionary & translated the Bible from English to Malayalam. This all lead to his 1922 novel 'Siddhartha'.